In Parashat Terumah, the Israelites are commanded to build the Mishkan (Tabernacle). Why construct something so exquisite and detailed in the middle of a desert? And what can building something so valuable, then and now, teach us about living through uncertainty? In this episode of TEXTing IRL, Elana Stein Hain and Hartman research fellow Tamara Mann Tweel turn to the rabbinic tradition to explore how building can ground us, offering practices that shape who we become.










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In this special series, TEXTing: IRL – Ideas for Real Life, host&nbsp;Elana Stein Hain&nbsp;sits down with guests who are accomplished practitioners in their fields to explore how classic and modern Jewish texts can help us&nbsp;wrestle with&nbsp;and act with integrity in the face of&nbsp;the big dilemmas of our time.


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